Everything wants me to pay rent

I blame iPhone and Android apps that required developers to keep paying a $100 minimum yearly fee to keep an app in the App Store.

There were tons $1-$5 apps in the early days of the stores, but 3-4 years in they switched to either freemium subscriptions or adware (or ad ransom models). Usually as publishers bought out indie devs, if they just didn’t copy them anyway.

It's because a lot of boomers own their homes and the concept of rent is foreign to them.

Most boomers don't even use any paid software aside from Windows and an antivirus they got tricked into buying

Because software needs to be maintained. Well at least most software that has a subscription model is maintained and gets regular updates. People don’t work for free, you have to pay them

QR codes are great. Make a website that pays money to your bank account when people enter their credit card details and leave the QR code on top of other QR codes like the ones to pay for parking.

Its a crazy simple scam. Sure you might not fall for it but someone will.

Also, web pages that keep trying to force you to use the app if you access them on a smartphone, but then the app only has half the functionality of the web page

I agree about the apps thing but QR code menus are fine imo. Beats having to decipher a sometimes outdated, damaged, dirty physical menu with a terrible print.

Why is a paper menu the hill you choose?

This^

VLC is open source and I am always using that while watching unlicensed content.

You don't have to feel pressured to donate.

Every additional user learning the software is a benefit to the ecosystem as a whole.

Subbed!

Yep I remember clearly the first time this happened to me with Splashtop Remote in like 2012. And more recently 4K video downloader. "4K video downloader is being deprecated, please upgrade to our new application, 4K video downloader" Literally only difference is my lifetime license is no longer good and I'd have to buy a subscription.

Well, too bad there are easier ways to download content and even if there wasn't you have made sure I will never get anywhere near your products ever again.

This is a particularly useful way to phrase it / think about it, gonna hold onto this one, thanks!

Our country runs off the buying and selling of nonsense. If we truly want to make America great again, we've got to get back to work, doing things that make fucking sense, not that revolve around the billionaires' cock. These rich idiots have cornered the market that anything that actually makes sense never makes it to the surface. All the ideas that make it to our plate are nothing but coke-induced delusional garbage from out of touch clowns. They always say it can never be done. But if you look back in the day like I say the Cold War era, we did make it to the moon, but now we can't even tie our shoes. We're running on fumes the billionaire leaning over to smell his own brand, wafting in his own essence of nonsense. Like I'm not a military boy, but if you look into the whole issue with the military and the right to repair I mean all these people that toot the horn of stupidity are gonna get fucked too Like we won't be able to win a war because we can't afford it because the private companies won't let us repair our own equipment. I mean that's some dumb fuckery cuckery. Things have gotten so absurd that you don't even need to appeal to morals, but just use juxtaposition and point out contradiction. Like we're so far gone.

Why don't kids just walk into the store, shake hands with a manager, and get a job immediately?

Somebody understood the assignment! That being said smokers while you are still eating are pretty tough on some people.

And we all know a Boomer would complain for the oligopoly.

They say fight the oligarchy because they want to maintain the oppressive capitalist system that got us in this position to begin with. Capitalism in crisis produces fascism. We go through these cycles and it's always the liberals that paved the way. Remember, they tell you what you want to hear and be careful what you wish for. I think they call it pacification. They are the masters at the sofist Uno card. Unfortunately, the likes of Bernie and AOC are really just sheep dogs.

This is me. I grew up "choose between bills and food" poor, and found alternate solutions to enjoy things. Figured that once I had the disposable income I'd stop. Sure, I did pay my way for a long time too. The thing that fucked me off the most was Netflix telling me that I couldn't share my account with a student friend of mine. I'm paying to be able to watch on 4 screens simultaneously, who the fuck is Netflix to dictate where those screens are located?

I still pay for stuff, if I feel that the service, software, what have you, deserves my money. I've paid enough for Netflix through the years so anything there is just me collecting my due.

: Side eyes Adobe CS6 Suite and Ableton:

So you are claiming the only reason that you are not paying for the software that you were previously pirating is that they switched to a paid subscription? Right

Right, but the problem with FOSS is a that it usually moves slow, typically isn't very user friendly, and has no real support from devs most of the time.

The latest season of Black Mirror had an Episode just like this.

All kids think anyone older than them is a boomer. Actual boomers think all kids are millennials. Millennials can't catch a fucking break at either end.

I thought it was a boomer is “older than me” and a millennial is “dem youngens”. /s

As far as I can tell, the word "boomer" has shifted from "an out-of-touch adult from the baby boomer generation" to "an out-of touch adult."

For real for real

I think it depends on the type of software. Subscriptions do make sense for software that requires regular updates, e.g. something tax related, where you need it updated with the latest regulations every year. Basically for anything that won't be useful a year from the purchase date without feature updates.

The most boomer thing is getting suckered into subscription services. This is like an upside down meme. I got no strings on me. And I'm a real boy. * Pinocchio

Especially when you live in a roughly compass oriented grid city

I would imagine most of us Europeans would have difficulties with that. "compass oriented grid city" hasn't really been a thing here since Roman times.

Lol, yeah, the fucking building at work kills me.

It's well off the road and is not congruent with it, It has two viable fronts and since not quite 45° to the compass rose but not far enough off to use it to the description.

Can't say north south east west can't say roadside can't say front so I can't say left or right.

Labeling where IT equipment is is such a fucking pain in the ass.

There are fire stairs on either side of the building and they do not differentiate them.

I could probably do NE and SW But it just feel so fucking dirty.

I just called the sides East and West in the end even though they're nowhere near.

At least the rest of the IT staff could figure out east and west if we were compass oriented I would totally not feel bad about using it

I remember back in the day the year 2000 something I was willing to pay like fucking $400 for that shit, but I kept it forever. Now, I just question why I even bother with a with Photoshop. Wait a second, I don't. I'm a man. I use gimp. Most of the features they offer are fucking stupid. Art and design is subtle and it is made for humans by Humans. I think these fucking ad agencies are gonna have to learn the hard way. Not that the herd is going to all of a sudden be a bunch of badass punk rockers, but people are just not going to be susceptible to it anymore. And then where do they go? I look at advertising nowadays and it's just so gross and unappealing. And like, I have a hair trigger. Like, everything I am experiencing, I know is somehow a fucking lie. I move slower nowadays with my purchases and usually some form of verification like a human being is needed for me to buy. And just a side note, I use to think people that were suck asses and just, you know, tooted the horn of corporate America acted like robots. And I think it's kind of funny that they're being replaced with robots. like you're a tool and now you're being replaced by a tool. The whole model really is just lower the bar and shoehorn in nonsense. lowest common denominator thinking and when they corner the market who else are you gonna go to or just give up on it entirely and say fuck it ...I hate suck asses. They're nothing but a bunch of goddamn phonies.

Had me eating the onion until the third paragraph

I love potatoes and cabbage personally. But this is still scarily accurate and possible.

Time to start growing our own food. People buying groceries on klarna, after pay etc is already happening

Kroger can come eat what I flush every morning.

Will I need a shoplifting subscription too as an add on?

So it's either we destroy our masters or we allow our children to destroy our societies and who could blame the kids? There's a reason why things are the way they are. Older men are dating younger women. I wonder why this is. Maybe it's because their wallets are more mature. And what am I supposed to do? Be angry at women? Get real. One of the reasons why we have so many young men who are incels is because of employment issues. Yet some forms of feminism specifically libturd females who Love castrating males and rubbing shit in their face, blaming it on rightwing populism, but populism is capitalism in crisis. We are still in fucking denial. The violence that is directed towards women is directly correlated with socioeconomics and stupid fucking Judeo-Christian values. Now I know correlation is not causation. But shit, it's got a relationship.. Now just because people do these things and there is a bad economy doesn't justify their actions but I am wise enough to know that I am a product of my environment. Look at all of these familicides that happen in our country yet we got these dumbass oinker shit rags making $200,000 plus a year and they are forming deputy gangs emboldened to the point where they're chasing ink with their gang tattoos. The Catholic Church and the police are very similar in that they just shuffle around these reprobates. I don't leave the house much only for what I need to do, the basic necessities of life. But when I do, I usually take a drive on a Sunday where all those that want to ignore our problems are in their homes sheltered buying shit on Amazon and I drive around and I look at all the people that are pushing shopping carts. Not like animals in the zoo, I'm just trying to see the temperature and where we're at. It's not looking good. Sometimes in life there are no easy answers. We live in the paradox, a open air prison, where we don't understand what's going on in the black box. If we could get inside that black box, we could turn the dials like the Wizard of Oz, and all these stupid social fucking ills would just automatically just disappear, at least at the rate that they are now. The German population hated themselves and that's why they invented the undesirables. Now you as a civilization have an option. You either start having respect for yourself or you're going to create a system that executes the undesirables while failing to realize that one day you might be an undesirable. Now it's kind of like a slow even burn, but pretty soon this system is going to open up the komono, come on out and start swinging dick. Are you ready to send your children to die for a billionaire's cock? Are you ready to be conscripted? because it's gonna happen and they're gonna start dropping nukes. You're also going to see false flag events happening in your own country, but yet you think I'm a tin foil hat man and I think you're an idiot that doesn't understand history. There is no fucking war but the class war. The left and right paradigm is a byproduct of kicking the can. And the paradoxes that we live in are really fake. So when your grandpappy got some old man knowledge. Just remember, his brain doesn't work like it used to. https://www.theviolenceproject.org/

Actually supporting open source looks a lot like a subscription service. I donate monthly to a handful of projects that I use regularly.

3 bags of coffee is highly variable

For me it's $49 AUD x 3 = $147 AUD from my local coffee bean roaster and that $49 is for a 1kg bag

This is the answer. If you pay for software you have only yourself to blame. I pay for email because I don't feel like dealing with it. Everything else is open source and/or selfhosted.

As much as I loathe capitalism, I will be happy about the grubs, ribbit ribbit.

I think it would be fair if you bought a version of a product for a fixed price, which you could use indefinitely and then to take a small price to upgrade to newer versions

I mean that's exactly how it used to work. You'd buy Office 2004, you could use it forever. When the new one released you could choose to upgrade if you wanted.

Same with Adobe stuff and everything really

I just hate it for stuff I am going to use sporadically. Like iracing. In summer I'll use it like once a month. In winter maybe like 4 times a week. But the price doesn't change. I could not use it for 3 months and then I wasted that money. I don't like that. Also, you never own anything then, which is what they want.

Also if you stop paying, your fully functional printer will refuse to print. If you loose connection to the Internet, it will refuse to print.

HP products are forbidden in my house.

Maybe for the short term, but there is software you use every day, for years. Some android apps I have been using since 2014.

I'm glad to see you mention that, I was going to make a similar comment. I figure it's a message that's probably well understood here on the fediverse, but outside of this space not so much.

I think there's also an argument to be made for charging subscriptions based on overall maintenance needs. Upgrades, updates, bug fixes, and things of that nature take time and can also cost money.

However, overall, there are way too many subscription based apps that just don't seem justified. If I buy version 2.3 of AppXYZ, and as long as I stick to that version nor need any online functionality, I just don't see a valid excuse for a subscription, other than pure greed on the developers' part.

if you want to charge support separate that's fair to do but this pay 60$ a year "because it's a continuous development" needs to go away

Can i pay extra to not have continuous updates that often breaks shit?

I liked the look of KDE plasma and used it when I first started with Linux but it is a buggy mess and extremely bloated. It feels like it's stuck trying to be Windows 7 aero.

As for NV I use Nvidia as well and I haven't had any issues on CachyOS with Nvidia's actual "open" drivers (not neuveau)

Try Linux, but ignore the fedora shilling.

Give bazzite a go, it's Fedora atomic but has NVIDIA and game features baked into the image.

Life's too short to try and manage NVIDIA drivers on linux

Did you have a stroke while writing this?